When you pay at least $18,000 for a car, spending less than $150 for an OBDII reader that can be used on any car is, well, something you should have no problems doing.

You don't even have to spend that much. A Bluetooth OBD-II dongle will set you back maybe $20, and you can use any computer, Android device, or jailbroken iOS device to talk to it.

A structured, socialized statist society is always a rich society.

Like Venezuela? How's socialism working out for them, idiot?

I've never come across a hard drive with a stepper motor actuated arm. Care to cite a model number for me?

I'm pretty sure the Seagate ST225 I once had in an IBM PC/XT used a stepper motor to move the heads. Voice-coil actuators only came on the scene sometime in the late '80s or so.

I'm running Greyhole on my home server. It aggregates storage across multiple (possibly dissimilar) drives in one or more pools. You can set varying levels of redundancy for each pool; you can have two (or more) copies of documents so that they're safe in case of drive failure, while disabling it for your video library (which is OK if you have it backed up). You can pull a drive out of a Greyhole box and access the files written to it.

I've had a disk fail recently, and another was on its way out (smartctl reported it had no more replacements for bad blocks). In the latter case, migrating data off the old drive onto a new one was easy. The other drive failed outright. My documents and photos were all safe. Some video and music files needed to be restored from backup...a minor pain. Overall, I think it's worked "as advertised" and would recommend it to others.

Disney and Warner Brothers ("Maverick") jump-started the infant ABC television network. Disney's move to NBC and color production rocketed sales of color TV sets.

ABC was spun out of NBC because the government believed NBC (owned at the time by RCA) was getting too big.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC#Red_and_Blue_Networks

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had, since its creation in 1934, investigated the monopolistic effects of network broadcasting. The FCC found that NBC's two networks and its owned-and-operated stations dominated audiences, affiliates and advertising in American radio. In 1939, the FCC ordered RCA to divest itself of one of the two networks. RCA fought the divestiture order, but in 1940 divided NBC into two companies in case an appeal was lost. The Blue Network became NBC Blue Network, Inc. and NBC Red became NBC Red Network, Inc. Both networks formally divorced operations on January 8, 1942, and the Blue Network was referred to on the air as either Blue or Blue Network, with official corporate name Blue Network Company, Inc. NBC Red, on the air, became known simply as NBC.

After losing its final appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1943, RCA sold Blue Network Company, Inc., for $8 million to Life Savers magnate Edward J. Noble, completing the sale on October 12, 1943. Noble got the network name, leases on land-lines and the New York studios; two-and-a half stations (WJZ in Newark/New York; KGO in San Francisco, and WENR in Chicago, which shared a frequency with Prairie Farmer station WLS); and about 60 affiliates. Noble wanted a better name for the network and in 1944 acquired the rights to the name "American Broadcasting Company" from George Storer. The Blue Network became ABC officially on June 15, 1945, after the sale was completed.

Di$ney acquired ABC sometime in the '90s IIRC, decades later.

You don't have to deploy ASP.NET projects to Windows boxes. You can use Apache/Nginx/whatever, Mono, and MySQL (or probably PostgreSQL, though I've not tried this) to replace IIS, .NET Framework, and SQL Server. There are a few differences here and there and it's not likely going to be as easy as deploying to Microsoft's webserver stack, but the savings on a farm of Linux servers vs. a farm of Windows servers (or even of a Linux VPS vs. a Windows VPS) should make it worthwhile if you're already up to speed on C# (or your language of choice), ASP.NET, etc.

There are airlines that charge you for each carry-on that you have. I know Spirit Airlines does this

Frontier does this for some passengers, though I think there are still ways to avoid the fee that don't involve paying more for your seat.

On a recent flight, I overheard that Spirit had bought Frontier. Tried googling it just now...turns out that Frontier was purchased by a private-equity firm headed up by a former chairman at Spirit. Given that my first (and last) experience with Spirit was total suckage in nearly every possible way (they canceled the return flight and had everyone fend for themselves until the next morning...my wife and I would've been stuck at LAX overnight if her brother-in-law hadn't gotten us out of there and back), this doesn't bode well for Frontier.

I'm 6'1" and around 240 lbs and I have no problem relaxing on a plane. And before you say anything, I'm not spilling over to the person besides me either. What I do is simple: I always (if possible) get a window seat.

Aisle seats work about the same for me, with the added bonus of not needing to climb out over the two people sitting with me if I need to get up for whatever reason. I'll get a little extra room by leaning out into the aisle a bit, except when the stewardesses bring the drink cart past. I usually don't sleep when flying, unless it's a redeye (and I've not flown one of those in a long time).

Middle seats suck colon. Fortunately, they're easy enough to avoid most of the time.

They're not turbine blades, but GE is already printing fuel nozzles. Rolls-Royce is also looking at doing the same. Maybe the OP got his parts mixed up.

Hollowpoints and rifle ammo may add up to more than $5 before you empty the magazine.

There's still lots of digital TV on VHF. In Las Vegas, for instance, five of the local broadcasters are on VHF. One of them (KSNV) is even on low-band VHF.

I remember when Intel added power on timers to the BIOS specification and released some software for configuring it. I think I was using a 386DX40 desktop at the time I tested it out.

That capability would've required ATX with its standby power capability, which didn't come along until well into the Pentium era. There's no way your 386 would've had wake-on-timer, wake-on-LAN, or wake-on-anything. The only thing that might've worked would have been to plug it into a timer (like you'd do with your Christmas lights).

Something that seems to be lacking is the IC list. I know the IC list is geared towards usage with the various platforms that you offer as well, but are there any plans to expand the IC list to include chips like logic gates, flip flops, etc?

If I had to guess, there's probably not much sense in them carrying common parts that you could just as easily order from DigiKey, Mouser, or whoever (and probably at lower cost due to the volume they shift). There appears to be little (if any) overlap between what Adafruit sells and what the regular electronics distributors sell.

with the price of Copper continuing to rise, who will be able to afford copper based PCB's in the near future? Silver has been consistently in the 5-12 dollar per ounce range and copper demand has reached the point that it's starting to hit the same levels with the expectation that copper will eventually level out at 100 per ounce or 10x the historical price of silver.

Um...silver's been above $20 per troy ounce for a while now. Copper, OTOH, has been closer to $3-$4 per pound. Copper has had a run up in price, but not nearly enough for it to make silver cheaper for wiring/PCB fabrication/etc.

As I write this, silver is $21.29/ozt. Copper is about $3.25/lb. Copper would need to rise above $310/lb just to equal silver...a two-order-of-magnitude increase.

If you want more legroom and the bulkhead seating is taken, arrive for your flight early and ask to be moved to an emergency exit row. In the U.S. at least, the airlines are not allowed to assign people to this row until the agent can visually confirm that the person is fit and capable of opening and lifting the emergency exit door (weighs about 35-50 lbs). The seats don't recline, but you'll get tons of legroom as they're spaced far enough apart to make an aisle for people to exit the aircraft through.

It's usually the seats in front of the exit row that don't recline, not the seats in the exit row. Looking at this as an example, row 11 is the exit row and reclines. Row 10 doesn't, as you wouldn't want reclined seats getting in the way of getting out of the plane in an emergency.

(The best seat on those airplanes, IMHO, is 12F...tons of legroom.)